Seattle seafood company sorry for sliming eagles in Kodiak (20 dead)

[uppityperson]

Source: Seattle Times

The Ocean Beauty Seafoods company of Seattle is giving $11,000 to bird rescue centers in Alaska as it expresses regret for the eagles killed and injured in a truckload of fish waste in Kodiak.

About 20 birds drowned in the slime or were crushed in the guts when they dived into the truck Friday at a processing plant. Rescuers saved 28 eagles. The company says the birds dived into the truck before it could be covered.

Ocean Beauty has donated $5,000 to the Bird Treatment and Learning Center in Anchorage and $2,000 each to three other raptor centers in Alaska.

Ocean Beauty has operated the Kodiak plant for more than 40 years, and says this is the first incident of substantial bird death.


Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004128355_webeagles16m.html

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I lived near one of their fish processing places when they got in trouble for "secretly) burying asbestos laden materials. Local people noticed and reported them, 20ish yrs ago. While individual employees were decent people, I couldn't say the same about the company. However, I haven't been around them for 10 yrs so maybe they had a change of business practices?
http://www.oceanbeauty.com/about/prodloc.htm

[Winterblues]

1. I guess eagles aren't so rare after all

If twenty of them can dive into the back of a dump truck to eat fish waste and drown in it. Plus another thirty or so sent off to be washed and rescued like after an oil spill. They must be really hungry..

[uppityperson]

2. Around fish canneries and dumps in AK, there are a bunch

elsewhere not so many.

[Zorra]

7. Bald eagles have made an amazing comeback since DDT was

banned in 1972.

In February 1996 I saw 76 bald eagles in one day along the Skagit River in NW Washington State.
:-)

[Ian David]

3. Are these the assholes who pay Doctor-killer Ben Stein to do their anti-environmentalism commercials

[uppityperson]

4. This Ben Stein?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Stein
I don't know, haven't seen the ads. The company was called something else a while back but can't remember. I think not bumblebee, but my mind has a hole there.

Edited to ad this link. Think it's a bigger group, not a processing place, but "eat seafood" group.
http://www.alaskaseafood.org/about/pressreleases/tv_ad_release.htm

[Ian David]

5. Yeah, THAT Ben Stein. n/t

[uppityperson]

6. This co is processing place

This co is processing place.

Looks like they bought a bunch of seafood processing places in AK. Which used to be: hire people for low wages, but give them good overtime (making lots of money while living in barracks out in the bush and unable to go spend money anywhere), require them to work long hours but that's part of the whole thing. The thing that got me was when they were not only burying asbestos illegally but not giving those doing it face masks even. They used to be some fundie religion type, you could not make much upward movement in company unless you were their religion.

I don't know if it's a new co that bought all the old ones, or just a new front for the old business. Neither would surprise me. After doing research, again, I don't know. Need to look into it more.

http://touchngo.com/sp/html/sp-5814.htm